>> it will be a busy 72 hours in the weather department. >> up and down and then way down. we will see temperatures around 40 degrees. when the sun sets, temperatures will go up. we could see middle 50's by tomorrow night. after that, a strong cold front moves through. we will see colder temperatures through the day on monday. tuesday, the coldest temperatures we have seen in 20 years -- 1994. temperatures we have seen in 20 yearsat ikea, we don't just design furniture.

we design good mornings. little experiments. big ideas. brighter ways. and better tomorrows you can take home today. imagine if everyday was just a little bit better for everyone. welcome to "world news." tonight, frozen nation. the very real dangers of the arctic blasts. temperatures not seen in decades. tonight, what doctors are seeing

already. what authorities are telling the fans in green bay, 80,000 about to be outdoors in temperatures 15 degrees below zero. new england, the collapse and the airplane forced to make an emergency land on a snowy new york city highway. from chicago to green guy, from boston to new york. our extreme weather team out in full force. and remembering one-half of the legendary singing duo. >> this one's called at that time kathy's clown. again with the everly brothers. >> a look back at the life of phil everly. ♪ don't want your love >> the younger brother hitting the higher notes. also tonight, going home. good news for a former first lady. and look who's waiting in the window for barbara bush. and the megasurprise, the mystery winner coming forward. how he remembered he might have purchased that winning ticket. good evening.

great to have you with us on a saturday night watching indoors. just look at the map. by early next week, every state covered in purple will see temperatures at or well below freezing. it's deadly from the midwest to the east coast. to nebraska, look at this. battling the blaze and the frigid temperatures. all the way to the east. into vernon, connecticut, a man nearly hidden by the snow he's trying to clear away there. and as colds as it is, it's going to get worse. an arctic blast moving in, and covering it all from the midwest to the east. and begin with gooe joe benitez in chicago. getting more on top of the foot they have. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, david. yeah, the snow just started falling moments ago. in fact you can hardly see this beautiful chicago skyline already, and that chicago river

completely frozen. this is our icy nation. tonight millions are bracing for more than just a snowstorm. but also a paralyzing deep freeze, a bone-chilling blast of bitter cold now threatening much of the nation. forecasters predicting sub zero wind chills beginning tomorrow. the most frigid in years. >> it's brutal. >> reporter: howl cold? water freezing in just seconds. >> now it's ice. >> reporter: temperatures expected to plummet in green bay, making tomorrow's ice bowl one of the coldest nfl games in history. the packers and 49ers playing in temperatures near 0. it will feel like 15 below zero. wbay's matt smith is there. >> the all-important tailgating forecast calls for a wind chill of negative 15. so for the roughly 80,000 fans brave enough to embrace the bitter cold, receive free hand warmers, free coffee and hot chocolate. >> reporter: while they prep for

fun, there's real danger here in the midwest. watch just how quickly heat escapes the body. this thermal camera showing the heat pulling away within minutes. 16 people have died from weather-related injuries. doctors stressing be careful. doctor, what are some of the injuries you're seeing today? >> folks are not preventing injuries that they would encounter with strenuous exercise. >> reporter: now trying to get the homeless off the streets and into shelters. and back here in chicago, we're going to be seeing really heavy snow overnight. in fact, david, listen to this, come monday morning, we're talking about a daily temperature, a temperature in the daytime of 11 degrees or 11 below zero, david. it is going to be frigid here. >> all right. bundled up again tonight. and now to a frightening scene in the middle of the snow and cold in new york city. a small plane making an

emergency landing on a major interstate lined with snow. the three people on board were taken to the hospital. not badly hurt. no one driving on the highway hurt either. no word on what forced the emergency landing. and tonight in boston, digging out, another emergency. a building collapsing under ice. abc's ron claiborne is there tonight. ron. >> reporter: david, boston got well over a foot of snow, and now hit with the arctic air that he was talking about. earlier this morning, the temperature around 0 and struggled to get into the 20s. the new challenge here and throughout the region, dealing with all of the snow that we got. the light and fluffy snow is now hardened into an icy, solid mass. lining streets and growing into miniature mountain ranges. major streets are well-plowed, but secondary roads are hard-packed. and from maine to maryland, plenty of shoveling to do. here in boston, more than 17 inches of snow. >> it's a wicked lot of snow. >> reporter: and all of that

snow has to go somewhere. where does it go? >> we'll haul it way. we actually have -- >> reporter: to where? >> snow farm. doesn't mean we grow snow, we dump snow. >> reporter: in massachusetts, an historic building that caught fire during the storm collapsed under the weight of ice formed by all the water used by fire fighters to douse the blaze. and now a new danger from above, icicles. the next two or three days are especially tricky as temperatures seesaw. cold today, much warmer in the next couple of days. rises well above freezing and then rain and then temperatures plunging again back into the single digits. that'she recipe for a lot of ice. >> ron claiborne with the boston skyline. and the know behind him tonight. now to the cancellations at airports across this country in the midst of the storm. and we are at laguardia airport tonight. >> reporter: passengers still stranded from this week's

snowstorm frustrated by long delays and cancellations at airports across the country. the roca family returned to chicago from a vacation in cancun to find the connecting flight to omaha cancelled. >> we didn't know any of this was going on. we should have stayed. >> reporter: the numbers are staggering. more than 4,000 delays today. but since the snow first started falling, more than 35,000. and tonight, jet blue customers firing off pictures of long lines. at laguardia, college student lisa cho spoke to us after spending thursday night on a cot. >> i was so tired. just knocked out. wasn't so bad. >> reporter: you heard from lisa, she is about to spend her third night at jfk airport. it's far from over. already hundreds of cancellations on the boards for tomorrow. >> thanks. i want to bring in meteorologist brad from wsb tonight.

it reaches further south than atlanta. >> in the florida panhandle, we have cold weather watches and workings. and a winter storm watch. >> you are watching the snow accumulating in places with snow already. >> overnight tonight and through tomorrow, heavy snow in spots. 3 inches in kansas city, half a foot in st. louis. chicago, already a foot to a foot and a half on the ground, an additional 8 inches there, and 10 inches rarnd grand rapids. this is the leading edge of a cold air mass. so behind the snowstorm, some of the coldest air in decades. these are high temperatures. high in fargo, 17 and 19 below. minneapolis 11 and 15 below. in chicago, 12 below for a high temperature monday afternoon. >> but when you see 15 below in minneapolis, is that a record? >> it's very close to an all-time record low-high temperature in minneapolis.

this hasn't been seen in decades. >> all right, brad, see you on gma. and one other note, a novel solution to the back breaking work of shoveling snow. it's made in america. it's a remote control snow blower from aaron from fort wayne indiana. it started out as a remote control lawn mower, but new chains on the tires and game-style controller. heck plow without a sweat. i see a story here in the making. in the meantime tonight, one place colder, antarctica, the u.s. coast guard sending a cutter, the polar star to help ships stuck in the ice pack. one a russian research ship, the other is a chinese ship that provided the helicopter to rescue passengers from the russian ship. the coast guard cutter is at least two days away. other news, a developing story u.s. intelligence officials are watching closely. in iraq, al-qaeda making their move, taking control of fallujah with sounds reminiscent of the iraq war. just listen tonight. [ gunfire ] you can hear the gunfire there.

it has been deadly. of course, fallujah is the site of two of the bloodiest battles in the iraq war. the state department tonight saying, we are concerned by the efforts of the arrorist state o. their barberism against the iraqi security forces is on display. i want to bring in martha raddatz with us here on a saturday night. you have reported from fallujah many times. the obama administration has to be concerned with what they're seeing. >> they're very concerned, david. i remember talking to you just over two years ago when i was coming out with the last convoy of u.s. troops. i visited fallujah the day before it happened. it was rather unstable and frightening then. but tonight you have al-qaeda flags flying in this very key area right next to syria. >> you were saying we have a diplomatic team there, about 100 marines, but they're in baghdad. what can they do? >> most are not going anywhere. they're there to protect the embassy and the classified material.

so the u.s. watching closely, sending drones, but not doing anything else. >> we'll be watching first thing in the morning. thank you. next to the vatican, pope francis is making headlines with the warning about future priests. here's abc's alex marquardt now. >> reporter: in the ten months since he was elected, pope francis has made a name for himself by saying exactly what he thinks. we now learn that the pope reportedly warned that youngpieces must be trained properly, otherwise we are creating little monsters, and then these little monsters mold the people of god. the pope's frankness has driven his favorability to a sky-high 92% with american catholic s. he has blasted the gap between rich and poor, and said -- you cannot serve the idol money and the living god at the same time. he recently called unfettered capitalism, "a new tyranny" riling many.

this week, cardinal tim dolan of new york had to defend the pope the billionaire founder of home depot, ken langone, said they were unsettling comments. "you want to be careful about generalities," he said to dolan. "rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country." >> the pope loves poor people, he loves rich people, he loves people. >> reporter: dolan also said the church's economic view is somewhere in the middle, between socialism and what he called cut-throat capitalism. but it's clear that pope francis' efforts to create a, "church of the poor," is leaving some feeling left out in the cold. david. >> all right, alex. thank you. and one more surprise from the pope tonight who's known to make an unexpected phone call from time to time. he called the nuns at a spanish convent, and when no answer, left a message in spanish. here's what he's saying in that voice mail, he asks, what are

the nuns doing that they can't answer the phone? then saying this is pope francis, i wanted to offer greetings for the end of the year. maybe call again later. god bless you. he did call back, and they picked up. and answering a call for help tonight, we learned that on new year's day one of the richest men in the world needsed help. jeff bezos was rescued from a cruise ship after a kidney stone attack. the equadorians shuttling him to his private jet and we're told he's recovering. and good news for former first lady barbara bush out of the hospital. she had a bout of pneumonia. showing the dogs waiting at the window for her return. she celebrates her 69th wedding anniversary in the coming week. tonight we look back at the life of a music legend, phil everly. one-half of the everly brothers.

♪ i need you so that i could die ♪ ♪ i love you so phil everly on the left, one-half of the legendary duo. ♪ whenever i want you all i have to do is dream ♪ ♪ dream, dream, dream he was the younger brother hitting the higher notes. a career spanning five decades. ed sullivan introducing the brothers in 1957. >> here's the story of a little boy and girl who went to the movies and fell asleep. the everly brothers and their newest recording. >> at the peak of their stardom, they averaged a top ten hit every four months. ♪ wake up little suzie was banned from many radio stations because of the story line. two teens at a movie well-past midnight. too suggestive for the times. ♪ wake up little sooudy -- suze and me ♪

and here being iroroduced by a young dick clark oamerican bandstand. >> this one's called "kathy's clown." again, the everly brothers. ♪ ♪ don't want your love anymore ♪ don't want your kiss that's for sure ♪ ♪ i die each time i hear this sound ♪ ♪ here he comes that fancy clown ♪ it's believed that song might have sold more than any of the singles. the beatles calling themselves the english everly brothers. tonight so many legendary singers reacting, nancy sinatra tweeting, phil's gone. touring with phil and don was

one of the thrills of my life. paul simon saying, phil and don were the most beautiful-sounding duo i have ever heard. both pristine and soulful. part of the birth of rock and roll. ♪ ♪ bye bye my love good-bye ♪ bye bye my love good-bye their music gets better with time. doesn't it? tonight his wife patty saying he fought long and hard against a lengthy illness, but we are absolutely heartbroken. much more ahead on world news this saturday night. the stunning story behind the megamillions winner how he remembered he bought the ticket. and the famous singer stunning her assistant. jennifer hudson's shocker. back in two minutes. we use this board to compare car insurance rates side by side, so you get the same coverage, often for less. [ rattling ] that's one smart board. what else does it do -- reverse gravity? [ chuckles ] split atoms?

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she was the contestant on american idol, finishing far from first. jennifer hudson proving to everyone they were wrong. now it's her assistant winning big. he's reena ninan. >> reporter: it's a scene similar to the ones she played on the big screen as carrie bradshaw's assistant who was gifted a big surprise. >> oh my god. my very own louis vuitton? >> reporter: this time it's actress and singer jennifer hudson who's doing the gifting. [ screaming ] hudson, surprising her longtime assistant with a new house. the singer posting the video on her instagram page. the two have been friends since grade school. by her side while she endured the heartbreak of a lifetime, the murder of her mother, brother, and nephew.

killed in their chicago home. other celebrities realize the power of giving back, oprah winfrey giving a cruise to the mediterranean for 100 of her harpo staffers. and brad pitt, $80,000 on gifts for his vineyard staff in france. and it's gone viral now, receiving more than 24,000 likes. reena ninan, abc news, new york. >> got to love her for that. and good morning america in the morning, good morning america. go